Six years ago I was led into
Christian Science after having spent many years dragging my
weary footsteps through the quicksands of alcoholism and the
mires of sensualism. At that time I was a member of the New
York stock exchange and of five of that city's most
exclusive clubs. I was a confirmed drunkard 
tightly bound by the subtle fetters of the carnal
mind. I took most of the drink cures suggested by materia
medica and was an inmate of a number of sanitariums in the
hope of finding a permanent healing. The inevitable happened
and one day I awoke to find myself just as financially
bankrupt as I had been for years morally bankrupt. Actually
penniless and practically friendless I wandered away from
New York into the South, and there met a student of
Christian Science, and as Mrs. Eddy says on page 283 of
Science and Health, received "the divine Principle in the
understanding," and since that time I have tried to "live it
in daily life." The light of Truth so flooded my
consciousness that I have never since used any kind of
liquor, the desire to do so having completely left me. At
this time I was also instantaneously healed of hay
fever.

The overcoming of lack of
supply has proved to me that the divine Mind recognizes no
difference between an ill body, an ill mind, or an ill
business. All are tributary to the carnal mind and are
resolved into their native nothingness by the understanding
of Christian Science properly applied. All I am and all I
have is directly due to Christian Science.